Thursday, May 28, 2009

Etsy open!

For some unknown reason I opened my Etsy shop. I decided to go back to batik painting and I made a couple of cotton pillowcases. I also made some embroidery, a couple of linen bags. If anyone curious about what my other batiks look like, go under the batik label on the right side.

I am into this folk looking style of an embroidery that looks like you cannot actually embroider. I especially like Japanese sashiko, the simply stitch of it.In the shop, I was thinking of putting up few vintage folk pieces that I can get here easily but the Czech Post charges huge money for shipping packages abroad. They charge incredible twenty dollars for the pacakge up to 1 kg! The textiles are fine though, they can be shipped as a letter and that lowers the cost several times.Here goes the shop!

I'd somehow missed you batik works, astounding! I like the connection with your mother in this craft. The embroidery on the bags is beautiful (one is already gone, before I managed to take a good peek!). Did you work from embroidery patterns? Congrats again!

Kristina, thank you!Francesca, I didn't use a pattern, I made it up, the brown bag has little to do with some of my batik scarfs that you have seen, so does the white bag. Geometric shapes, I couldn't do much else.

bonjour!!weLL i've been to prague once and i loved it! i bought the musical doll there but the books belong to my husband, he is been to prague about 10 times...he collects czech books.ur pillow case looks beautiful!today is our first wedding anniversary, i wish we were in prague to celebrate...have u ever been to south of france?gini